Due to lack of support in the kernel (this is being worked on), you won't see anything in ncon. However, the system should eventually boot, make some queries via DHCP, and open up a telnet port.

From there, you should be able to point your telnet client at it, and perform the install as per the guide._________________Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...

Hey Cobalt buddies. I have emerged the new version of the mips-sources kernel. However during the patching phase I notice it doesn't use the cobalt patches. And when I try to boot with the kernel, it doesn't even do anything. During the colo phase it loads vmlinux.gz, but when i execute it it shows ELF and some numbers but it stalls.

I have checked my used flags, cobalt is in there, my make.profile points to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/mips/cobalt/2005.0. I read on another thread that mips-sources-2.6.10-r4 tries to install a 2.6.9 cobalt patch, but the patch can't be found.

So essentially, how do I manually patch cobalt patches on 2.6.12 and/or emerge correctly 2.6.10-r4?

This thread has been great, and the support wonderful. Thanks for all the time and information._________________We need to start colonizing the moon.

So far I have just reverted to my old kernel. Here is another issue I have.

Essentailly I do bit-torrent, web browsing, and online games. During heavy traffic my connection seems to freeze, my resolution is to restart the networking devices, i.e. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and net.eth1 restart. This gets tedious to say the least. So in my infinate wisdom, I installed into my glorious qube2 a PCI NIC card. A Netgear FA311 to be exact. No problem recompiling my kernal to add the needed driver. However when heavy traffic insues with this setup, the machine hard locks. Can't do anything, no serial input, no ssh, completely frozen. Quick reboot and I am back into action.

So you cobalt gurus, I need your help. Either how do I stop the hard locking with the PCI NIC, or how do I configure/setup the orginal NICs to handle the load. I am unsure whether to the problem. Either I need to implement bandwidth limitations or some other kind of manipulation. Thank you guys on helping me out in any way.

Hi,
Not sure what's causing the hard-locks on your Cobalt -- I suspect the driver for that network card is not totally reliable on MIPS -- either that, or some funkyness elsewhere in the kernel is causing problems -- which might explain the onboard Tulip interfaces misbehaving.

One possibility, is to perhaps try mips-sources 2.6.13.1 -- you'll find an ebuild for it here.

Incidentally, your emerge info output there is not from a Cobalt system, but rather, some Pentium II system -- and no, cobalt is not set according to it's output.

Missing patches should really be filed as a bug -- I'll let Kumba know of the problem -- as this needs to be fixed._________________Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...

Thanks Redhatter, I am emerging the mips-sources-2.6.13.1 now. I edited my previous post with the correct emerge info, i had used my web server, which is the pII. My qube is my router/firewall. I hope this may help. I am very pleased with the support in this forum. I will get back with you on this issue

EDIT:

Ok, mips-sources-2.6.13.1.ebuild had some generic patch failure. So I am no emerging mips-sources-2.6.13.2.ebuild; and so far so good, again, I don' t see anything specifically saying cobalt patches like i did on the mips-sources-2.6.9 kernel. Here is a exerpt of the patching:

And now its on its merry way. As to whether it really needs the patches, i don't know. I assume it new to apply them, as it gave me the 2.6 kenel won't work with the origanl boot loader. Which i have the newer colo bootloader installed.

EDIT 2:

I am still experiencing hard locks with the new NIC. However, I can't seem to go back to the two onboard NICs. Its strange. Here are my iptables.conf for with and with out the new NIC:

Are the interfaces configured correctly? Are there debugging options you can enable somewhere?
Is it perhaps worth redirecting the syslog to a separate host so you can monitor its output?_________________Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...

I can certainly try. Right now I am just stuck rebooting the qube2 whenever it freezes, which is very often. i am thinking of just removing the pci NIC and spending the time needed to get the orginal NICs up.

I checked my /var/log/messages and this error was all over the file:

Nov 22 12:01:02 talyne eth2: PCI error 0x800000

Now I know the card was working fine in my old pc, so I think it's the driver NATSEMI. Although it very well could be a deffective card. Let me know if you have any clue what that error means._________________We need to start colonizing the moon.

Yeah, if you can't get it sorted out by tinkering, then I'd suggest asking on the Linux/MIPS mailing list about it, or asking Peter Horton (maintainer of Cobalt Linux port) directly.
The contact details you need are on the pages I linked you to in my last post...

One possibility, is to perhaps try mips-sources 2.6.13.1 -- you'll find an ebuild for it here.

Ok, my qube has been reformated and started fresh. I have the stage 3 on, however, I can't get a working kernel going. I tried emerging 2.6.12 and 2.6.13.

I have cobalt in my use flags. Again it appears it only does a few cobalt patches, i remember on 2.6.9 it did like 10 cobalt specific patches once i added cobalt to my use flags. Is there anyway i could get 2.6.9 from someone. I am smashing my head on the table. I downloaded 2.6.12 patches from colo guys website, but i can't seem to figure out how to patch it.

Is it patch -p1 < patcfiles. Cause if so hunks fail.

Kernel compiles fine,without patching, using kumbas .config, with some tweaks, but when i reboot, i get the ELF and some numbers, but it stalls. Luckily i have an old 2.6.9 on my /boot partition, it boots to that, with failures. I need to emerge 2.6.9 to at least get back and going. Any help would be great._________________We need to start colonizing the moon.

Ok. With the use=-cobalt have have gotten further. But that doesn't make sense to me, it used to be use=cobalt; doesn't the -cobalt mean not to use cobalt patches. Oh well, it does say mips-sources-2.6.13.4.cobalt now in the /usr/src/ directory, so that makes me happy. And now it loads part of the kernel. YAY!

I decided to use reiserfs for my root partition, cause its fast right. I am having problems there. First of, I did use your .config, I did add reiserfs intalled into the kernel, not a module, but it seems like the kernel doesn't support reiserfs. I will post the output I get.

Another wierd thing is, I have that old 2.6.9.cobal kernel, when I load that up, it loads and finds the reiser partition just fine. I has issues, cause of no modules for 2.6.9 but it gets far enought so that I can emerge/compile. So, what is going on? I have set my default.colo to specify the root=/dev/hda3 and i also set it into the kernel as well. Still no go, so i tried it without the root=/dev/hda3, same thing. Redhatter, you have been very helpful and I appreciate it all.

Yes, USE=-cobalt does mean leaving out the patches. If you're going to patch the kernel yourself, you have to tell portage to leave them out, otherwise you'll get conflicts (hunks failing).
If you set USE=cobalt, then they'll be applied by Portage for you -- and so there is no need to patch it by hand.

The kernel should work just fine with ReiserFS, the config I'm using runs fine with ReiserFS partitions on external SCSI disks (I have an Adaptec AHA2940AU SCSI card in the PCI slot). Looking at the output from your last boot -- it does look like you forgot something -- as it doesn't detect the partitions....

That is, I don't see a line like the following:

Code:

hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >

It couldn't be something simple like Partition Type support per chance?_________________Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...

Sorry if it is really long, I just pulled from the .config
.config for 2.6.13.4:

Code:

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-qube"
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
# CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE is not set
# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
# CONFIG_AUDIT is not set
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LABELS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LOOPS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_JUMPS=0
# CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
# CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set
CONFIG_KMOD=y

#
# Machine selection
#
# CONFIG_MIPS_MTX1 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_BOSPORUS is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_PB1000 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_PB1100 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_PB1500 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_PB1550 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_PB1200 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_DB1000 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_DB1100 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_DB1500 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_DB1550 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_DB1200 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_MIRAGE is not set
CONFIG_MIPS_COBALT=y
# CONFIG_MACH_DECSTATION is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_EV64120 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_EV96100 is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_IVR is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_ITE8172 is not set
# CONFIG_MACH_JAZZ is not set
# CONFIG_LASAT is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_ATLAS is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_SEAD is not set
# CONFIG_MOMENCO_JAGUAR_ATX is not set
# CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT is not set
# CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_3 is not set
# CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_C is not set
# CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_G is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_XXS1500 is not set
# CONFIG_PNX8550_V2PCI is not set
# CONFIG_PNX8550_JBS is not set
# CONFIG_DDB5074 is not set
# CONFIG_DDB5476 is not set
# CONFIG_DDB5477 is not set
# CONFIG_MACH_VR41XX is not set
# CONFIG_PMC_YOSEMITE is not set
# CONFIG_QEMU is not set
# CONFIG_SGI_IP22 is not set
# CONFIG_SGI_IP27 is not set
# CONFIG_SGI_IP32 is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_SWARM is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_SENTOSA is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_RHONE is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_CARMEL is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_PTSWARM is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_LITTLESUR is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_CRHINE is not set
# CONFIG_SIBYTE_CRHONE is not set
# CONFIG_SNI_RM200_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA_JMR3927 is not set
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA_RBTX4927 is not set
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA_RBTX4938 is not set
CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT=y
CONFIG_DMA_NEED_PCI_MAP_STATE=y
CONFIG_I8259=y
# CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is not set
CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
CONFIG_IRQ_CPU=y
CONFIG_MIPS_GT64111=y
CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5

#
# CPU selection
#
# CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R1 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R2 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_MIPS64_R1 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_MIPS64_R2 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_R3000 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_TX39XX is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_VR41XX is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_R4300 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_R4X00 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_TX49XX is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_R5000 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_R5432 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_R6000 is not set
CONFIG_CPU_NEVADA=y
# CONFIG_CPU_R8000 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_R10000 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_RM7000 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_RM9000 is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_SB1 is not set
CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_CPU_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_CPU_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL=y

#
# Kernel type
#
CONFIG_32BIT=y
# CONFIG_64BIT is not set
CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_4KB=y
# CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_8KB is not set
# CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_16KB is not set
# CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB is not set
# CONFIG_MIPS_MT is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_CPU_HAS_LLSC=y
CONFIG_CPU_HAS_LLDSCD=y
CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SYNC=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y
CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
# CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set
# CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_XFRM=y
CONFIG_XFRM_USER=y
CONFIG_NET_KEY=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_ASK_IP_FIB_HASH=y
# CONFIG_IP_FIB_TRIE is not set
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE is not set
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
# CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP is not set
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
# CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP is not set
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST is not set
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
# CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1 is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2 is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
# CONFIG_INET_AH is not set
# CONFIG_INET_ESP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP is not set
CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=y
# CONFIG_IP_TCPDIAG is not set
# CONFIG_IP_TCPDIAG_IPV6 is not set
# CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y

#
# IPv6: Netfilter Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
# CONFIG_IP6_NF_QUEUE is not set
# CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES is not set

#
# SCTP Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
# CONFIG_IP_SCTP is not set
# CONFIG_ATM is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set
# CONFIG_DECNET is not set
# CONFIG_LLC2 is not set
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_X25 is not set
# CONFIG_LAPB is not set
# CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y

#
# Network testing
#
# CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN is not set
# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set
# CONFIG_IRDA is not set
# CONFIG_BT is not set

#
# Parallel port support
#
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
#
# Plug and Play support
#

#
# Block devices
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
# CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD is not set

#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set

#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT821X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
# CONFIG_IDE_ARM is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set

#
# SCSI device support
#
# CONFIG_SCSI is not set

#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
# CONFIG_MD is not set

#
# Fusion MPT device support
#
# CONFIG_FUSION is not set

#
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
#
# CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set

#
# I2O device support
#
# CONFIG_I2O is not set

#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
# CONFIG_BONDING is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_TUN is not set

#
# ARCnet devices
#
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set

#
# Tulip family network device support
#
CONFIG_NET_TULIP=y
CONFIG_DE2104X=y
CONFIG_TULIP=y
# CONFIG_TULIP_MWI is not set
# CONFIG_TULIP_MMIO is not set
# CONFIG_TULIP_NAPI is not set
# CONFIG_DE4X5 is not set
# CONFIG_WINBOND_840 is not set
# CONFIG_DM9102 is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
# CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH is not set
# CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE is not set
# CONFIG_B44 is not set
# CONFIG_FORCEDETH is not set
# CONFIG_DGRS is not set
# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
CONFIG_E100=y
# CONFIG_FEALNX is not set
CONFIG_NATSEMI=y
# CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_8139CP is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO is not set
# CONFIG_SIS900 is not set
# CONFIG_EPIC100 is not set
# CONFIG_SUNDANCE is not set
# CONFIG_TLAN is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is not set
# CONFIG_LAN_SAA9730 is not set

#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_ACENIC is not set
# CONFIG_DL2K is not set
# CONFIG_E1000 is not set
# CONFIG_NS83820 is not set
# CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set
# CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set
# CONFIG_R8169 is not set
# CONFIG_SKGE is not set
# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY is not set
# CONFIG_TIGON3 is not set
# CONFIG_BNX2 is not set

#
# Ethernet (10000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_IXGB is not set
# CONFIG_S2IO is not set

#
# Token Ring devices
#
# CONFIG_TR is not set

#
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
#
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set

#
# Wan interfaces
#
# CONFIG_WAN is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK=y
CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
# CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC is not set
# CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY is not set
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
# CONFIG_PPPOE is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
# CONFIG_SHAPER is not set
CONFIG_NETCONSOLE=y
CONFIG_NETPOLL=y
# CONFIG_NETPOLL_RX is not set
# CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP is not set
CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER=y

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# Telephony Support
#
# CONFIG_PHONE is not set

#
# Input device support
#
# CONFIG_INPUT is not set

#
# Hardware I/O ports
#
# CONFIG_SERIO is not set
# CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set

#
# Character devices
#
# CONFIG_VT is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set

#
# Watchdog Cards
#
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_COBALT_LCD=y
# CONFIG_DTLK is not set
# CONFIG_R3964 is not set
# CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set

#
# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
#
# CONFIG_DRM is not set
# CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is not set

#
# TPM devices
#
# CONFIG_TCG_TPM is not set

#
# I2C support
#
# CONFIG_I2C is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR is not set

#
# Dallas's 1-wire bus
#
# CONFIG_W1 is not set

#
# Hardware Monitoring support
#
# CONFIG_HWMON is not set

#
# Misc devices
#

#
# Multimedia devices
#
# CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set

#
# Digital Video Broadcasting Devices
#
# CONFIG_DVB is not set

#
# Graphics support
#
# CONFIG_FB is not set

#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set

#
# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
# CONFIG_USB is not set

#
# USB Gadget Support
#
# CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set

#
# MMC/SD Card support
#
# CONFIG_MMC is not set

#
# InfiniBand support
#
# CONFIG_INFINIBAND is not set

#
# SN Devices
#

#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY is not set
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY is not set
CONFIG_JBD=y
# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_JFS_FS=y
CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
# CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS is not set
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y

#
# XFS support
#
CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
CONFIG_XFS_EXPORT=y
# CONFIG_XFS_RT is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_SECURITY is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_INOTIFY is not set
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
# CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
# CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y

#
# CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_ISO9660_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UDF_FS is not set

#
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

#
# Pseudo filesystems
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
# CONFIG_SYSFS is not set
# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set
# CONFIG_TMPFS is not set
# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
CONFIG_RAMFS=y

#
# Miscellaneous filesystems
#
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BEFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set
# CONFIG_VXFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set

#
# Partition Types
#
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set

#
# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=m
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251=m
CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m

#
# Profiling support
#
# CONFIG_PROFILING is not set

#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
# CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE is not set
CONFIG_CMDLINE=""

#
# Security options
#
# CONFIG_KEYS is not set
CONFIG_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SECLVL is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX is not set

I am so close, I just know it. I checked for patition types in the .config, it has Advanced Partition types, so I did set the MSDOS setting. Please point out what I would be missing.

EDIT: YAY! Up and going, I think it was the .config, I more closely read through yours line by line, don't know for sure what it was, but it is fixed. Kernel up. No the whole reason for this mess. I had this think as my NAT router. For whatever reason I can't get it to foward the internet to clients. I posted my configs way up there, but here they are again.

CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_XFRM=y
CONFIG_XFRM_USER=y
CONFIG_NET_KEY=y
CONFIG_INET=y
-CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
-CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
-CONFIG_ASK_IP_FIB_HASH=y
-# CONFIG_IP_FIB_TRIE is not set
+# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
+# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
-# CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES is not set
-# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH is not set
-# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE is not set
-CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
-# CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP is not set
-CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
-# CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP is not set
-CONFIG_NET_IPIP=y
-CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
-# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST is not set
-CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
-# CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1 is not set
-# CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2 is not set
+# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
# CONFIG_INET_AH is not set

These should be okay.

Code:

@@ -231,11 +235,6 @@
# CONFIG_IP_TCPDIAG_IPV6 is not set
# CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y
-
-#
-# IP: Virtual Server Configuration
-#
-# CONFIG_IP_VS is not set

This should be okay... I don't have that stuff, because my machine is not a router.

Code:

#
# SCTP Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)
@@ -336,7 +261,7 @@
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set
-CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y
+# CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE is not set

@@ -371,6 +291,7 @@
# Parallel port support
#
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
+
#
# Plug and Play support
#
@@ -384,14 +305,11 @@
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON is not set
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
-# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP is not set
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=y
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8 is not set
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
# CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD is not set

These should be fine. Actually, I didn't even know I had loopback and ramdisk support disabled. Guess I better change that...

Code:

@@ -419,6 +337,7 @@
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set

#
@@ -432,8 +351,7 @@
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
-CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
-# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
+# CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set

DMA should work, but I spose disabling it for the moment would be best.

Code:

@@ -458,13 +376,80 @@
# CONFIG_IDE_ARM is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
-CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
+# CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set

#
# SCSI device support
#
-# CONFIG_SCSI is not set
+CONFIG_SCSI=m
+CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y
+
+#
+# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
+#
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
+CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
+CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST=m
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set
+CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
+CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SCH=m
+
+#
+# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
+#
+# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING is not set
+
+#
+# SCSI Transport Attributes
+#
+CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=m
+# CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS is not set
+
+#
+# SCSI low-level drivers
+#
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_3W_9XXX is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID is not set
+CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
+CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=32
+CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000
+CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_ENABLE=y
+CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_MASK=0
+CONFIG_AIC7XXX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT=y
+# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O is not set
+# CONFIG_MEGARAID_NEWGEN is not set
+# CONFIG_MEGARAID_LEGACY is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_SATA is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_DMX3191D is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_IPS is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100 is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2 is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_IPR is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280 is not set
+CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=m
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA21XX is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA22XX is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2300 is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2322 is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA6312 is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA24XX is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_LPFC is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_DC395x is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_NSP32 is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG is not set

This is again optional. For RaQ users following the discussion, some of them have SCSI controllers onboard -- Don't ask me which one though. My Qube2 has a PCI SCSI card (Adaptec AHA2940AU) in the slot, and hence I selected that... I think the RaQ uses a NCR chipset... but don't quote me on that.

Code:

#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
@@ -475,6 +460,8 @@
# Fusion MPT device support
#
# CONFIG_FUSION is not set
+# CONFIG_FUSION_SPI is not set
+# CONFIG_FUSION_FC is not set

#
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
@@ -490,7 +477,7 @@
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
-CONFIG_DUMMY=m
+# CONFIG_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_BONDING is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_TUN is not set
@@ -504,7 +491,7 @@
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
-CONFIG_MII=y
+# CONFIG_MII is not set
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
@@ -522,26 +509,7 @@
# CONFIG_WINBOND_840 is not set
# CONFIG_DM9102 is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
-CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
-# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
-# CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH is not set
-# CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE is not set
-# CONFIG_B44 is not set
-# CONFIG_FORCEDETH is not set
-# CONFIG_DGRS is not set
-# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
-CONFIG_E100=y
-# CONFIG_FEALNX is not set
-CONFIG_NATSEMI=y
-# CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set
-# CONFIG_8139CP is not set
-# CONFIG_8139TOO is not set
-# CONFIG_SIS900 is not set
-# CONFIG_EPIC100 is not set
-# CONFIG_SUNDANCE is not set
-# CONFIG_TLAN is not set
-# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is not set
-# CONFIG_LAN_SAA9730 is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_PCI is not set

#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
@@ -555,7 +523,6 @@
# CONFIG_R8169 is not set
# CONFIG_SKGE is not set
# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
-# CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY is not set
# CONFIG_TIGON3 is not set
# CONFIG_BNX2 is not set

@@ -581,15 +548,9 @@
# CONFIG_WAN is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set
-CONFIG_PPP=y
-CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK=y
-CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
-# CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC is not set
-# CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY is not set
-CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
-CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
-# CONFIG_PPPOE is not set
+# CONFIG_PPP is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
+# CONFIG_NET_FC is not set
# CONFIG_SHAPER is not set
CONFIG_NETCONSOLE=y
CONFIG_NETPOLL=y

This is sane

Code:

@@ -610,7 +571,25 @@
#
# Input device support
#
-# CONFIG_INPUT is not set
+CONFIG_INPUT=y
+
+#
+# Userland interfaces
+#
+# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set
+
+#
+# Input Device Drivers
+#
+# CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
+# CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set

No point in having these on a headless box But they should be harmless...

Code:

#
# Hardware I/O ports
@@ -740,45 +719,35 @@
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
-# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY is not set
+CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
-# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY is not set
+CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
-CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
+CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
-# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
-CONFIG_JFS_FS=y
-CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
-# CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY is not set
-# CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG is not set
-# CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS is not set
+CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
+CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
+CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY=y
+# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y

#
# XFS support
#
-CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
-CONFIG_XFS_EXPORT=y
-# CONFIG_XFS_RT is not set
-# CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA is not set
-# CONFIG_XFS_SECURITY is not set
-# CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL is not set
+# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
-# CONFIG_INOTIFY is not set
-CONFIG_QUOTA=y
-# CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
-CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
-CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
+CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
+# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
-CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
+# CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set

#
# CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
@@ -798,9 +767,12 @@
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
-# CONFIG_SYSFS is not set
-# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set
-# CONFIG_TMPFS is not set
+CONFIG_SYSFS=y
+CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR=y
+CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_SECURITY=y
+CONFIG_TMPFS=y
+CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y
+CONFIG_TMPFS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
CONFIG_RAMFS=y

Okay, most of these are sane... You'll want TMPFS and SYSFS, as both of these are used by Gentoo Linux.

In addition, it may be worth pointing out that XFS support is flakey at best -- it doesn't recover from errors on 64-bit machines (requiring one to mount the partition in Linux/x86 or IRIX to repair errors), and I've found it was b0rked on mipsel -- although that was back when I was running kernel 2.6.8.1. The situation might be better now, but don't bet on it.

#
# Partition Types
#
-CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
-# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION is not set
+# CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
-# CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is not set
-# CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set
-# CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION is not set
-# CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set

#
# Native Language Support
#
-CONFIG_NLS=y
+CONFIG_NLS=m
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
-CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
+CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set
@@ -939,26 +896,22 @@

These look sane...

Code:

# Security options
#
# CONFIG_KEYS is not set
-CONFIG_SECURITY=y
-CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
-CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y
-# CONFIG_SECURITY_SECLVL is not set
-# CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX is not set
+# CONFIG_SECURITY is not set

Now, I'm not sure about the security options there. SELinux I think needs more work to run on MIPS (spb would know more there), and so I tend to approach those options with caution, but the rest seems sane.

I see you've fixed the not seeing / problem... however, I think the NAT problem may be highlighted by some differences above. Hope this helps. _________________Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...

I you guys want I can post my kernel config I use atm on my Qube2 which is running as my firewall/router.
It uses a 3COM 905c card in the PCI slot to which the cable modem is hooked up, and never had produced error as of yet.

The kernel used is 2.6.10 I believe. Need to check tonight when I get home again.
Just let me know if it's wanted!_________________Mac Pro single quad 2.8GHz, 6GB RAM, 8800GT. MacBook. Plus way too many SUN/Cobatl/SGI and a lonely Alpha.